Kim Bardoul has been with the Highland Group since 2004. Since joining the company she has worked on all types of hotels including full-service, limited-service, extended-stay and resort properties.
Kim’s experience includes feasibility studies for proposed and existing hotels, due diligence for acquisitions, impact studies, financial analysis, litigation support, and market analysis. Kim specializes in boutique hotels. Her recent experience includes some unique conversion properties that were previously a funeral home, hospital and a former prison. She has also recently spoken at a boutique hotel conference, lectured on the segment at a university and Kim has moderated panels in Chicago, Miami and London on the boutique hotel segment.
Kim has worked in most primary and secondary markets in the southeast and in Canada.
Kim is a graduate of Georgia State University with a Bachelor in Business Administration and major in Marketing. She is a board member for the Atlanta Hospitality Alliance, an associate member of the ISHC, and active with Georgia Women in Lodging.
E-mail: kbardoul@highland-group.net

Highland Group is committed to sustainable operations. Company purchasing policy and practices place a premium on sustainable and recycled products. The company recycles and operates in a paperless environment.
•Research and expert testimony to contest a claim for damages to a hotel from highway reconfiguration
•Feasibility study for a full-service luxury boutique hotel converted from a former utility building
•Feasibility study for a budget boutique hotel in a coastal market
•Feasibility study for a boutique hotel in a college town
•Feasibility study for a luxury high end resort boutique hotel
•Feasibility study for a budget oriented trendy boutique hotel
•Feasibility study for a high end riverfront boutique hotel
•Research and identifying the best markets to develop new extended-stay hotels in the US
•Feasibility study to convert a former hospital into a boutique hotel
•Feasibility study for a boutique hotel as part of a downtown redevelopment project
•Feasibility study for a stylish boutique hotel in a trendy restaurant neighborhood
Mark Skinner was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article entitled; “Long-Stay Hotels Settle In.”
Kim Bardoul was quoted in an Atlanta Business Chronicle article entitled; “Loudermilk seeks boutique hotel in Buckhead Village.”
Kim Bardoul moderated a very interesting panel discussion on outsourcing food and beverage at boutique hotels in Miami. Local celebrity Chef Douglas Rodriguez and boutique hotel developer Tim Dixon have very different opinions on this issue and we had a spirited discussion.
The Wyndham Hotel Group Global Conference – Las Vegas, April 2012
The Boutique Hotel Summit – London, May 2012
MLIS – Chicago, July 17, 2012
ISHC Annual Conference – Atlanta, Sep 2012
The Lifestyle/Boutique Hotels Investor Conference – Miami, October 2012
Atlanta Hotel Investment Conference – Atlanta, March 2013
